Every year during Thanksgiving in New York City, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is hosted: a few hour-long parade with huge balloons based on famous characters from TV shows and movies. This year the parade was slightly shorter due to corona measures, the parade was so short that some people actually regretted going there. Still, quite […]
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New research by Dutch astronomers disputes the explosive study results published a few weeks ago, suggesting the presence of phosphine (and therefore potentially life) in the atmosphere of Venus. In mid-September, a research team led by astronomer Jane Greaves of Cardiff University announced that they had detected phosphine in Venus’s upper atmosphere. The announcement made […]
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One of the founders of the famous platform Twitch committed suicide yesterday afternoon. Byron Bernstein became known through Twitch for his dedication and personal records. Reckful was well known for his achievements in the MMORPG genre (massive multiplayer online role playing) game World of Warcraft (WoW). He was the first player to achieve a ranking […]
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The researcher behind the “creation” of the world’s first “genetically modified” babies has just been sentenced to three years in prison by a Chinese court. In November 2018, Chinese geneticist He Jiankui announced that he had modified the genome of two newborn twins. Its goal: to make them resistant to the AIDS virus. To do […]
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If you saw Star Wars: The rise of Skywalker, you will remember that there are a couple of moments when Finn tells Rey that he needs to confess something, but by the time the final credits run, we are never shown what he wanted to tell him so urgently. The fanatic’s suspicions immediately pointed out […]
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Just recently, we were talking about a study that advises adults in Europe and North America not to change their habits regarding their consumption of red meat, but the tumultuous past of the principal investigator of the same study has resurfaced, so the latter finds himself accused of conflict of interest! Surprising conclusions Since 2015, […]
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An American institute estimates that in fifteen years, the construction of new wind and solar farms will be less expensive than the operation of gas plants. In other words, the energy produced by the wind and the sun will be cheaper than that obtained through natural gas. A reversing trend As Bloomberg explains in an […]
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Google Maps has just added a new feature: weather data now appears on maps in a badge that shows the temperature and a pictogram as a function of time. But this feature seems for the moment that on iPhone and remains to subscribers absent on Android without that we know why. The competition of iOS […]
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According to one study, restoring forests could be our best weapon against global warming. Thomas Crowther, a researcher at ETH Zurich, and author of this work defended the idea as follows: “There are 400 gigatonnes of CO2 currently captured in the 3,000 billion trees on the planet. If you increase this capacity by 1,000 billion […]
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Apple is expected to launch three next-generation iPhones this year, and each will have a triple camera on the back. The prediction comes from Guilherme Rambo, a Brazilian developer famous for discovering the features of Apple’s new devices, rummaging through the latest updates from iOS, the company’s operating system. In a text posted on 9to5mac, […]
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